putting mystic drunken scribbles into the hands of unsuspecting pigeons all over Chicago.

9/3/08

Elephant Zine Pre-Release This Weekend

I hope you all have been keeping it very poetry, & hopefully with usall summer long!Ready for more?What a way to start the Fall Semester other than:A Music Show! Art on Display! A Poetry Reading! and Further Madness!

The Charming Gardenerswill be playing their first and last Chicago show.A psychedelic rock experiment from a Chicago basement, The Charming Gardenershave been together for three years playing in completely free form style, exploring the intuitive, the irreverent, and sometimes the stoned and zany sides of music.They will unite one last time with member Scott Frigo, to send him off on a grand adventure.The band will play a short set on the roof at around 9 pm.

Gallery art includes work byMichelle Manni, Riley Crane, Vincent Finazzo, Anne Marie Hobbs, and other Red Floors Gallery collaborators and contributors.Work will be on display all night and throughout the rest of the month.

Poetry will be read throughout the evening. Featured poets includeJen NW, Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Andy Koszewski, Faithfully Yours, Stephanie Lane Sutton, the Elephants Zine crew, and many more.Please feel free to bring five minutes of work and get on the list to read! This is often the most exciting and dynamic portion of the evening so show up early and don't miss a thing!

+A PREVIEW OF OUR NOTEBOOKS ISSUE TO BE RELEASED LATER IN THE MONTH!!!!

Collaboration and mind expansion is natural. Bring your pen. Bring an open mind.

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give us yr pages

The Immigrants' Address:"where are you from?" You can talk about your ancestry, your hometown, or your alien reptilian forebearers. send any art/words to: elephantzine@gmail.com

CoL LaB.round robins, exquisite corpses, murals; anything slapt together by more than one artist/writer/pornstar, preferably in its' original form, handed to one of us or scanned and e-mailed or snailed to elephantzine c/o Kiernan 2353 s whipple chgo il 60623 danke

ELEPHANT: NOTEBOOK

The Notebook issue is a collection of pages from artists, poets, and drunks- fresh first drafts of stories, scribbles, letters, doodles, sketches and poetry. The goal of the artist is not to make a masterpiece but to be making art. The Notebook is a tribute to the work in progress as a masterpiece.